On Aug 10, 2013, at 11:15 PM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com> wrote: > >> It's very little time to do this stuff since everything is automated. I >> worked out the policy and mechanisms five or six years back, it's been >> running the same ever since although I've upgraded drives and computers >> since several times. > > This makes me wonder how many of us with comprehensive backups have actually > had a drive fail so you need to restore the data? Or is there some variation > of Murphy's Law that says you'll only experience problems when you have no > backup, or worse, when you thought your backup was good...
In the past dozen years, I've had three hard drives fail completely. One incited me to develop the backup policy and procedures. Two of them were after I instituted the backup policy and procedures. The second two were ten minutes work to recover from after acquiring a new drive. The first was ten days work. There's a reason I did this. And it works, perfectly, for my needs. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
